Hose-rack.



C. O. LUND.

HOSE RACK.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. I8. |912.

1,170,173. K vPatented Feb. 1, 1916.

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YCARL O. LUND, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AssicN'oE, EY' DRECT'NDMESNE fission@ MENTSOF ONE-HALF TO (IMXRLUJBIII)- N. Y., A,CORPORATION OF NEW YOR MANUFACTURING -COMPANXKIOF NEW YORK, Y

K, .AND ONE-HALF V'ro Nr.1 n. ALLEN COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS', ACORro'RA'riON;

HOSE-RACK,

to provide re hose at suitable places, connected to the standpipes, for quickly supplying water in case Cif-fire.` This hose is usually wound on reels or hung in loopsy on racks, in a manner that assures the stretching ofthe hose in a minimum of-time without entanglingthe same.V i 1 The hose vrack forming the subject-matter of the present application has` for itsobject l extreme simplicity,^durability and eiiiciency and consists, principally, in the employment of pins for supporting loops of hose, which pins, in contra-distinction to pins heretofore used for similar purposes, aremade of two parts, held together only when supporting the hose, but separating or falling apart when releasing the hose.

One of the forms 1n which the present invention may be carried out, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which; v f

Figure 1, is a side elevation of the device, Fig. 2, a top view of the same, Fig.V 3, a cross section in the line A A of Fig. 1, Fig. 4, a top view and Fig. 5, a ysideview of a supporting pin on an enlarged scale.

A plate 1, building by suitable bolts, carries a swinging arm or bracket 2, on a pivot 3. The arm 2 is made of channel iron, having its channel 4 facing downward and provided with ledges 5. The anges of the channeliron and the ledges constitute supports for the pins hereinafter referred to. A number of hooks 6, are arranged on each ledge and adapted to carry the pins for supporting the loops of hose. Eachpin consists of two parts 7 and 8, the part 7 hung with its eye 9 on a hook 6 on one side of the bracket and the part 8, with a similar eye 10, on a hook 6 of the opposite side of the bracket. The parts are of sufficient length to exactly meet in the center of the bracket and theabutting Y ends of the parts, are cut-in a vertical plane,

with the usual nozzle. 16.

secured to the walls of'the' specification of Letters raient. Patented Feb. 1, 1916,V Application filed March I8, 1912,. ,l Serial No. 684,583. i

vided at its abutting end with a recess 13, the other part of the same pin, with a stud 55 14, whch may enterV the recess 13. Y y

'Loops 15 of tire hosev -arehung over and supportedv by the pins, as shownin Fig. 1, andthe front endof the,v hose isprovided Near the wall end of the bracket 2, and located within its channel 4,y is a member or plate 17, secured to the arm by rivets 18, and so arranged `that its front edge 19, is located 'near and parallel to the' last or in-v nermostof thelpins, holding and supporting the fire hose. f: v v f The operation of arranging the re hose on the pins, 'consists in bringing thetwo parts of: apin in substantially a horizontal plane, holding the abutting endsso that the stud 141is opposite the lrecess 13, and ypressing the parts so as to bring'thesame in coaxial position and causing the stud to enter the ref cess. This produces now a rigid. pin, ex-y tending from one side of the bracket to the 4 otherthat is capable of supporting one loop vplaced in such a way that the stud is removedfrom its recess, the abutting faces of the parts separate, the parts themselves drop down in a vertical position and hang with their eyes on the hooks and one loop of hose is dropped. When the slack in the hose is taken up, a pull is exerted against the second pin, etc.` until the entire length of hose is stretched. Should water have been Y turned on in the meantime, by opening the valve of the standpipe, it will fill the hose, but not further than the last pinl which,as heretofore stated, is in Contact with the lower edge of thel horizontal plate. This horizontal plate, being of resilient material, such as sheet metal, forms an efficient closure with its contacting pin and prevents water from filling the entire hose, until a pull on the hose releases the last loopfrom the last pin, whereupon water fills the entire hose and may be used through the nozzle, for the purpose intended. n

It is not essential that the parts of the pins are hung onhooks. The eyes of the parts may be arranged in vertical planes on rods disposed lengthwise of the bracket and the loops of hose supported on the pins, so formed by the pairs of abutting parts. The hose could again be released by a simpleY horizontal pull which separates the parts of the pins and drops one loop of hoseafter the other.

The inventor claims l. A hose-rack having a pair of supporting members, a plurality of pins supported thereby, each of said pins having two parts adapted to maintain each other in horizontal position within the vertical plane of their aXes and to release each other when moved out of suoli plane.

2. A hose rack comprising an arm, a plurality of pairs of hooks on said arm, a pin for supporting loops of hose linked to the hooks of each pair, each pinl consisting of two parts and of means for securing together said parts when supporting the hose.

3. In a hose rack thel combination with an7^ arm, of a plurality of pins thereon for supporting loops of hose, each pin consisting of two parts and having means for securing together said parts when supporting the hose, said parts being adapted to separate and release the hose when laterally displaced.

4. A hose rack comprising an arm and a plurality of pins thereon for supportingloops of hose, each pin consisting of two parts, the inner ends of said parts abutting in a vertical plane oblique to the axis of said pin, each pin having means for securing together said parts when supporting the hose.

5. A hose rackcomprising an arm and a plurality of pins thereon for supporting Copies of this patent may` be obtainedior vel cents loops of hose, each pin consisting of two vplurality of pins thereon for supporting loops of hose, each pin consisting of two parts, the inner ends of said parts abutting in a vertical plane oblique to the axis of said pin, one of the abutting ends having a stud and the other a recess to receive said stud for securing together said parts when supporting the hose.

A hose rack comprising an arm, a plurality of pins thereon for supporting loops of hose, and a member secured to said arm and coperating with one of said pins whereby thc hose is compressed between said member and said pin to prevent the passage of water while the hose is supported.

8. A hose rack having a hose-carrying member and a relatively iXed clamp arrangedl above said hose-carrying member and coperating therewith to grip the hose betweenv them, said hose-carrying member being movable relatively to said clamp to releasethe grip on the hose as the latter is removed from the rack.

y9. A hose rack having a relatively fixed clamp and a hose-carrying support arranged beneath and coperating therewith to grip the hose, said hose carrying support being movable into and out of cooperative relation with said clamp.

In witness whereofthe inventor has hereunto set his hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 2nd day of March, 1912.

, CARL O. LUND.

In presence of- VV. GnRALD-HAwEs, RALPI-ii J. SAoHnRs.

each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

